Via Urban Confessional \\ Listening is love. And love is listening.

 

Listening is love. And love is listening. It’s really all you need to know about listening. But, here’s a few other gentle reminders… There is magic that happens when we make ourselves available to others. An open heart is a loving heart. And a loving heart is a listening heart. If we want to truly listen and be with someone, we must be with them not only in their strengths, joys, and successes, but also in their weaknesses, fears, and insecurities. Listening is the quickest path to loving, and love alleviates all risk. Listen with your heart, listen to their heart, and discover that there is less distance between hearts than between minds. We hope you’ll take some time to love others by practicing Free Listening this month. Or as we like to call it Free With-ing.

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Appreciative Joy

 

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Appreciative Joy Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis upon which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on appreciative joy, for when you develop meditation on appreciative joy, any discontent will be abandoned. (MN 62)  The manifestation of appreciative joy is elimination of discontent. (Vm 9.95)

Reflection It turns out that feeling good about the success or well-being of other people is good for you. The natural inclination of the self is toward selfishness, which is aimed at getting what we want and need. This is a useful function up to a point, but if we are ever to evolve beyond it, we need to reverse the process and cultivate care and concern for others. Wishing them well and celebrating their good fortune is a good place to start. Daily Practice Keep on the lookout today for what happens to other people and wish them well when you see or hear of someone having good fortune. This is actually an excellent remedy for your own discontent. If you are not happy about your lot in life, you can immediately lift yourself into a better state by taking joy in the good fortune of others. Rather than resent their success you can use it to help raise your own mood. Tomorrow: Refraining from Harsh Speech One week from today: Cultivating Equanimity Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Via Daily Dharma: Reawakening Wonder

 

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Reawakening Wonder I think that we must reawaken our collective wonder for life, and respect for death, if we hope to shift the course of our species on this planet. adrienne maree brown, “Breaking Is a Part of Healing” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering

 

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RIGHT VIEW Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering What is the cessation of suffering? It is the remainderless fading away and ceasing, the giving up, relinquishing, letting go, and rejecting of craving. (MN 9) When one knows and understands flavors as they actually are, then one is not attached to flavors. When one abides unattached, one is not infatuated, and one’s craving is abandoned. One’s bodily and mental troubles are abandoned, and one experiences bodily and mental well-being. (MN 149)

Reflection Just as suffering is constructed moment by moment by attaching to the details of sensual experience, wanting the flavors we like and not wanting the flavors we don’t like, so too that very moment of suffering can be deconstructed by abandoning the wanting and not wanting and replacing it with equanimity. We still experience the flavor, directly and intently, but without being entangled with it—only aware of it. Daily Practice Practice eating with equanimity. Simply take a bite, chew it slowly and carefully, attending fully to every nuance of texture and flavor, and then swallow when appropriate. All this is done with great awareness but without favoring or opposing any aspect of the experience. When you experience flavors “unattached” and “without infatuation,” you are, in that brief moment at least, entirely free of suffering. Tomorrow: Cultivating Appreciative Joy  One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Daily Dharma: Our Struggles Define Us

 

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Our Struggles Define Us Struggles are encountered in practice; one might even say they are essential to the practice. Whether they’re stories of great teachers or our own stories, distilling the essence of dharma through struggle is inherent in the path. Justin von Bujdoss, “Distilling the Essence” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

The Eight Worldly Winds: Fame and Disrepute By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard In the second installment of our series on the eight worldly winds, Vanessa Zuisei Goddard examines how our desire for recognition is tied to the deeper fear of not being. Read more »

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - March 2, 2025 💠

         

Mantra, which is a repeated phrase, is designed to keep your consciousness centered. It’s a perspective giving device. It’s adding a third component to every relationship you have with object in the universe. This could be OM, this could be the sun, this could be Buddha consciousness, this could be called the witness, it’s Self-remembering in the Gurdjieff system. It’s a technique of adding a third component in order to get free of the identification with either of the other two. You can use the mantra to find a center in yourself and to keep that third component going. Which allows you to watch your own drama all day long. It’s all a vehicle, and it’s going to have to go. But mantra is a useful vehicle.